Catherine Jane Limbert (aka Williamson)

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

Catherine Jane Limbert, a solicitor at Cognitive Law Limited, admitted three allegations of misconduct: failing to follow client due diligence procedures, dishonestly stating to her employer that she had never been under SRA investigation, and holding £3,410 of client money in the bank account of an unregulated entity she controlled. She admitted dishonesty regarding the untrue statement to her employer. The dishonesty aggravating factor for the client money allegation was stayed on proportionality grounds. The Tribunal approved an agreed outcome that she be struck off the Roll and pay costs of £7,177.50.

Duties found breached:

• Proper basis for allegations
• Segregate client money
• No improper use of client money

Aggravating factors:

• Admitted dishonesty in relation to the untrue statement about her regulatory history
• Breach involved abuse of duty of trust and candour owed to employer
• Failure to protect client monies by placing them in an unregulated entity's account
• Minimum sum of £456 remained unaccounted for

Mitigating factors:

• Suffering from serious ill-health adversely affecting decision-making, and overworked (not agreed by SRA)
• Difficulties with handover of files from previous firm (not agreed by SRA)
• Demonstrated insight and remorse through admissions and agreement to penalty